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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-843
Advisory Release Date: 2017-06-06 17:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-06 22:51 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process
status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute
commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.
(CVE-2017-1000367)
Affected Packages:
sudo
Issue Correction:
Run yum update sudo to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.i686
sudo-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.i686
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.i686
src:
sudo-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
sudo-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.x86_64
sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.x86_64
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-28.25.amzn1.x86_64